About the White-tailed Tyrannulet
The white-tailed tyrannulet is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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The white-tailed tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a medium gray crown. They have a thin white supercilium and a faint blackish stripe through the eye on an otherwise whitish face. Their upperparts are mostly greenish olive with a bright greenish yellow rump and uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky with pale yellow edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts have white to pale buff tips that show as two bars on the closed wing. Voice: The white-tailed tyrannulet's dawn song is "a high, lisping pseeee-psweet". Its day song is "a descending series of high, rising, sibilant whistles: PSEE pswee pswee psweet" that sometimes ends with "sharper pit notes".
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What the White-tailed Tyrannulet sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in November · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
White-banded TyrannuletMecocerculus stictopterusThe white-banded tyrannulet is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 8 to 11 g (0.28 to 0.39 oz).
Sulphur-bellied TyrannuletMecocerculus minorThe sulphur-bellied tyrannulet is 11 to 12 cm (4.3 to 4.7 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz).
Rufous-winged TyrannuletMecocerculus calopterusThe rufous-winged tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz).
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